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From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: "Lalit Seth" <sethlalitwo@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GCC COMPILE OPTIONS
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17748.25515.182669.450998@zebedee.pink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13d245450611100330s7ee0cda4q264c2fe687954185@mail.gmail.com>

Please don't top-post.

Lalit Seth writes:
 > I have  experienced that GCC fails to compile with gmake but gets
 > successfully compiled when gmake bootstrap-lean is used. Why so.

Probably because your system compiler is broken.

 > This was on HPUX 11.11 for version 3.3.2
 > 
 > On 11/8/06, Tim Prince <timothyprince@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 > > Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
 > > > "Lalit Seth" <sethlalitwo@gmail.com> writes:
 > > >
 > > >> I like to knw why we use "gmake bootstrap-lean" to compile GCC instead
 > > >> of "gmake". How they are different and what behaviour changes are
 > > >> there in 2 cases for GCC compiler.
 > > >
 > > > We have no idea why you do that.
 > > >
 > > > The difference is that during bootstrap-lean old stages are removed
 > > > when they are no longer needed.  That is, bootstrap-lean uses less
 > > > disk space.  There is no difference in the compiler.
 > > >
 > > I thought OP might be asking why it took so long for gcc build to
 > > implement a default which should know when bootstrap is required. Only
 > > the recent versions can build from scratch without explicit bootstrap
 > > option.
 > >

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-10 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-08  7:30 Lalit Seth
2006-11-08 15:54 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2006-11-08 17:32   ` Tim Prince
2006-11-10 11:30     ` Lalit Seth
2006-11-10 11:34       ` Andrew Haley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-06 11:33 gcc compile options Peter Kurpis
2001-07-05 18:40 Peter Kurpis
2001-07-05 17:12 Carla Nunes
2001-07-05 18:15 ` Alexandre Oliva

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